Chapter 458: Five Stars Rise in the East, Benefiting China (Seeking subscriptions!)

Leaving the courtyard, the two took a bus to Tsinghua University.

Along the way, he chatted with Xiao Han while secretly observing the micro-expressions of his belly-black wife. Fortunately, she didn't mention what happened last night until they got off the bus.

Was this hurdle considered passed?

Thinking like this, he examined the gate of Tsinghua University and then asked: "Wife, you've been in the capital for more than a month. Have you met Yang Yingwen?"

"Mm, she came to the hospital to find me several times and told me the rental address."

Xiao Han looked around and finally pointed to a hostel on the right hand side and said: "It should be over there. Yingwen said her rental is next to the hostel, the second to last room on the left on the second floor."

Li Heng looked in the direction of her gaze and felt it was a coincidence. Li Ran told him in the letter that she was staying in this hostel.

Next, they found the rental address very smoothly.

"Is this the one?" He asked.

"Yes, these clothes are Yingwen's." Xiao Han pointed to the clothes hanging in the corridor.

"Knock, knock, knock!"

After confirming, Li Heng reached out to knock on the door.

As soon as it rang, a voice came from inside: "Who is it?"

"Old Mabu, open the door, your old family is here." Li Heng shouted.

With a "creak," the door opened, revealing Yang Yingwen, who was tying her hair inside.

Upon meeting, Yang Yingwen happily pulled Xiao Han into the room, only said "Find a place to sit yourself" to Li Heng, and then went to greet Xiao Han.

Li Heng followed into the room and looked around. The rental was relatively simple, with only a table, a bed, and two wooden stools. Damn it, it was too poor; there was simply no place to stand.

He stood behind the door and asked: "Old Mabu, what is the monthly rent for this house?"

Yang Yingwen said: "8 yuan."

Li Heng was surprised: "So expensive? An ordinary worker's monthly salary is only a few dozen yuan."

Yang Yingwen complained: "Big brother, don't act like a bumpkin; this is the capital."

Li Heng rolled his eyes, turned around in front of Xiao Han, and asked: "Wife, tell me, which one of us is the bumpkin?"

Damn it! Being called a bumpkin by a bumpkin, he felt insulted.

Xiao Han had small dimples, pursed her lips and smiled, and didn't help either side.

Li Heng asked Yang Yingwen with concern: "You don't go home during the summer vacation, and you don't ask for money from home. What are you relying on to make money now?"

Yang Yingwen told him: "I'm tutoring 5 children, helping them with English. I teach 6 days a week, 4 yuan per class."

Li Heng asked: "4 yuan per person per class? Earning 20 a day?"

Yang Yingwen said yes.

Li Heng examined the rental again and was relieved: "This is definitely a high income. No wonder you are willing to spend so much money to rent a house."

Yang Yingwen said: "I teach children in the morning. I also have to teach foreigners in the afternoon, teach foreigners to speak Mandarin, and occasionally take foreigners shopping and introduce the customs of the capital."

Li Heng blinked: "Where did you get the resources?"

Yang Yingwen said: "My English teacher found that my conditions were difficult, so she took the initiative to introduce the resources."

Li Heng didn't ask about her income this time, thinking that the income must be quite considerable. No wonder she had the confidence not to return to Shangwan Village. He reminded: "As a girl, pay attention to safety when you are outside alone."

Yang Yingwen smiled bumpkin-style: "It's okay, the foreigner is a woman, she is a very good person, and often buys me things. Besides, I'm not Xiao Han. A great beauty is not safe outside. People like me generally don't have anyone targeting them."

Scanning her body back and forth, Li Heng nodded seriously: "This makes sense. Walking on the street, 8 out of 10 women are better than you."

Yang Yingwen was anxious: "You dog thing who can't spit out ivory from a dog's mouth, is your skin itching? Fighting as soon as we meet?"

Making her angry, Li Heng was satisfied and walked toward the door happily: "You wait for me here; I'm going to find someone."

Yang Yingwen asked: "Find who? I'm familiar with this area; do you want me to take you?"

Li Heng pointed to the hostel: "Just next door, no need."

In less than 10 minutes, he brought Li Ran to Yang Yingwen's room.

"It's you?" As soon as she entered the door, Li Ran first exchanged pleasantries with Xiao Han, and then said this to Old Mabu.

Li Heng asked: "You know each other?"

Although Li Ran had been to Shangwan Village, Yang Yingwen was at odds with her family, and she wasn't at home during that time, so the two girls shouldn't have met by reason.

Li Ran was familiar: "These past few days, I often run into her going out."

Yang Yingwen said with a smile: "Me too. I often see you on the road in the evening, holding a camera. I have a deep impression of you."

"I was just bored, taking scenery and taking pictures." Li Ran herself worked in news before, and her camera almost never left her body, so it was easy for people to remember.

With this interruption, Yang Yingwen and Li Ran were considered familiar, and they were too lazy to let Li Heng waste his breath introducing them.

Closing the door, the four first chatted about some family matters, and after half an hour, they talked about business.

Old Mabu had said in a letter half a year ago that she had discovered a business opportunity and wanted to start a business with him. In order to convince him to start a business together, she naturally prepared sufficiently, and immediately found a thick stack of newspapers and documents from the drawer for them.

Old Mabu said: "These are the materials I collected. You guys take a look."

Entering the business segment, Li Heng restrained his expression, took the newspapers and documents, and read them silently and quickly.

In order to let him understand the situation as soon as possible, Yang Yingwen also made supplementary explanations on the side:

"In 1984, the state issued the 'Provisional Regulations on Self-Funded Study Abroad,' allowing individuals and public officials to study abroad at their own expense, which triggered a wave of studying abroad. A large number of young people, and even middle-aged people, holding various purposes, did not hesitate to resign from stable jobs, abandon their families, and sell their properties, just to squeeze their heads to run outside..."

"Since the United States held the TOEFL exam in our country in 1981, the number of people taking the exam has been rolling forward every year. Just in the capital, there were more than 8,000 candidates in '85, more than 20,000 in '86, and more than 40,000 in '87. This year is even crazier..."

"Although the wave of studying abroad is getting hotter year by year, you know the domestic environment. Everyone's English is not good, and there are no professional training institutions. Many people failed the exam, so I think this is a big opportunity, a big opportunity to make money every day."

She talked a lot about her philosophy, and then showed off: "By the way, Li Heng, I also took the TOEFL exam. Guess what score I got?"

Li Heng raised his head: "How much?"

Yang Yingwen said proudly: "Only 1 point away from full marks."

Li Heng was stunned for a moment and gave a thumbs up: "Awesome, how did you do it?"

Yang Yingwen said: "I memorized two dictionaries."

Li Heng was filled with awe: "No wonder your teacher recommended you to teach foreigners Chinese."

"Mm, the reason those parents let me teach their children English is also because I scored high, plus I often take foreigners shopping around. They trust me quite a bit. I have a relatively big reputation in this area." Yang Yingwen hadn't met a fellow villager for a long time and had been suppressed for too long. Today, she finally opened her mouth happily, and her mouth was like a machine gun, babbling non-stop.

It took a full 2 hours to finish reading all the newspapers and documents. Li Heng put down the newspapers, took a big sip of the soda Xiao Han handed him, and asked Yang Yingwen: "Do you want to run a regular English tutoring class?"

Yang Yingwen said: "Yes, I ran through every street and alley in the capital in the past six months and conducted a detailed survey. In this area of the capital, the market potential is huge, but there are no relevant professional services."

"Most of them are guerrilla teams like me fighting alone, without any regular army. If we establish the first tutoring class in the capital at this time, we will definitely be able to make a name for ourselves in a short time and make a wave of quick money."

Li Heng asked calmly: "If it's just to run a tutoring class, why did you call me here? You can do it yourself, right?"

Yang Yingwen thought he was dissatisfied and explained quickly: "I don't have enough capital. And after all, I am a woman. I want someone to support me. After thinking about it, you are the most suitable. You have money, you have a reputation. In case something happens to me in the future, you can also use your great writer status to save me."

"Most importantly, we grew up wearing open-crotch pants together. I trust you."

These were her sincere words.

In the final analysis, she was just a woman from a mountain corner. She needed someone to support her in this big city so that she would have the courage, confidence, and a place to complain when the pressure was high.

And counting the peers around her, she didn't admire anyone, only Li Heng.

Or rather, Yang Yingwen secretly admired him a little.

Of course, she wouldn't say this admiration, so as not to let someone be complacent and often use it to hit her.

Everyone had known each other for so many years, who didn't understand whom? Li Heng was also a master who would be brilliant if given a ray of sunshine. He couldn't be praised! Can't praise!

Li Heng said: "To be honest, if it's just to open an English tutoring class, I'm not interested in doing it. I even called Li Ran here. Let's do it big. If we do it, we'll do an English tutoring school."

Yang Yingwen was stunned: "Tutoring school?"

Li Heng nodded: "I've finished reading the newspapers and documents you gave me just now. Since you wrote to me half a year ago wanting to do this, I have also paid attention to this area."

"The market is absolutely no problem. Just like you said, since the permission for public-funded study abroad, with the acceleration of the reform and opening-up process and the increase in opportunities to contact foreign countries, the whole society's demand for English is getting bigger and bigger. Especially the contemporary young people, who have a near-crazy desire for English."

In fact, the main reason for this phenomenon is the general social environment. The top goes down and the bottom follows, and the media is fueling the flames every day, otherwise it wouldn't be so crazy.

In the final analysis, the desire to learn English is mainly the desire for money and the yearning for modern life abroad in the bones.

Especially with the popularization of CET-4 and CET-6, and the large influx of foreign capital into the country after the '92 Southern Tour, the market will only get bigger and bigger.

There is a market but no service. As time goes by, someone will always discover this piece of fragrant cake. For example, Yu Minhong in later generations ate this big dividend of the era. Two years later, he founded the tutoring class business in the capital and opened the market by posting small advertisements everywhere.

Li Heng was in this market with Old Mabu in Yangcheng in his previous life. After decades, he was quite familiar with the business and management. He was simply clear.

He now has the successful experience of his previous life, is sitting on the seat of the era's big dividend, and has millions of funds in his bank passbook.

If he doesn't go back to his old business, wouldn't he lose to death?

He now has great ambition. As the first person to have the opportunity to eat crab, he wants to make this training school to the scale of New Oriental in later generations, or even bigger. He wants to snatch the luck that belongs to Old Yu.

After talking for a while, Li Heng finally took a newspaper and pointed to a piece of news and said: "Look, the state encourages education and encourages private schools, and there are great tax preference policies. This is a huge advantage that other industries cannot compare with at present. We must make full use of it."

Li Ran was eager to try when she heard that he wanted to run a tutoring school, and she was rubbing her hands on the side, wanting to follow him to do a big career.

On the contrary, Yang Yingwen seemed hesitant.

Li Heng asked: "Why? Are you afraid?"

Yang Yingwen said: "Not afraid, I'm afraid that the steps will be too big and I have no experience."

Heh, who said there is no experience? Immediately, Li Heng didn't hide it anymore, described the structure of the training institution in his previous life in detail, and during this period, he even stripped off the bottom of New Oriental, analyzing and telling them one by one.

After patiently talking for more than half an hour, Li Heng was dry-mouthed and finally drank the soda in his hand.

Yang Yingwen opened her eyes wide and asked incredibly: "How do you know so much?"

Li Heng answered a different question: "Who am I? I am a great writer. Do you have confidence now?"

Yang Yingwen pondered for a long time, digested the content he just said carefully, and then nodded heavily: "I'm not a stupid pig. I really feel that your plan is feasible."

Li Ran had no opinion, Old Mabu had no opinion, and the three reached an agreement.

Next, they discussed and clarified their respective responsibilities. Li Heng invested money and became the big boss.

Li Ran became an administrative management person, specifically responsible for the entire tutoring school.

Yang Yingwen supported the teaching part, which is the top priority.

Li Heng said: "We need to find a school to hang on to now, and give this school some money, so that people in society can trust us and feel that we are regular."

Li Ran asked: "Which school to find?"

Li Heng analyzed: "The reputation cannot be too big. If it's too big, people won't bird us at all. The reputation cannot be too small. If it's too small, there will be no public credibility and no influence in society."

Yang Yingwen said: "I will list all the schools in this area later, and then screen them one by one."

Li Heng nodded, and then said: "In terms of teaching, Old Mabu, you know many foreigners. See if you can pull a few foreigners to do part-time jobs. If our tutoring school has a few foreign faces, ho! That effect will definitely be leverage, and enrollment will not be a problem."

Yang Yingwen agreed and wrote this idea down in her notebook.

He then said: "Besides foreigners, English teachers from nearby schools are the main targets we want to win over. You go to each school, throw out olive branches to them, and let them come out to do part-time jobs to earn extra money."

Xiao Han asked on the side: "They are university teachers, will they agree?"

Li Heng was very sure about this: "Wife, how does that saying go? Money can make ghosts push mills. Don't look at university teachers as infinitely glorious, but there are long and short fingers, and not every university teacher's life is satisfactory.

Don't worry, as long as the remuneration we give is attractive enough, some teachers may be noble and disdain to do so, but there will always be some teachers who will be moved."

Li Ran had been rolling in society for so many years, and her mother, Zhao Jing, was still a professor at Xida. She had a deep understanding of the teacher group and agreed with this:

"Indeed, many university teachers come from poor countryside. Their monthly salary is not only for household use but also needs to be sent back to help the old home. It is not enough to spend, and life is very tight. I think it should not be difficult for us to open the way with money."

Yang Yingwen echoed: "Hanhan hasn't been in contact with extracurricular tutoring, so she doesn't understand much. I have a deep experience. In fact, there are individual university English teachers who, like me, privately take students outside to earn extra money."

Li Heng's eyes lit up and he ordered: "Pull these teachers over, we will unify and collect them."

"Okay." Yang Yingwen wrote these ideas down again.

Next, several people made detailed plans on how to pull university teachers? How to teach? Teaching content? How to enroll?

Finally, Li Ran asked: "What is the name of the tutoring school? So I can go register."

Li Heng blurted out: "New Future."

Li Ran tasted the name and asked: "Any special meaning?"

Li Heng opened his mouth and came: "It's just the literal meaning, have a brand new future."

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